The Wheel and cycling trade review . nt! The man with the anise-seed bag will take the best roads, and therewont be any twouble with nahsty fences. TIRE AND SPOKE REPAIRING. Trouble is sometimes experienced in re-pairing a leaky inner tube valve. A handyway to do the work is illustrated in Fig. 1,in which A designates a section of the innertube, B the rubber ring and D the pointwhere leaks usually occur. Ordinarily the re-pairer undertakes to place prepared glue orcement beneath the ring with a brush orother instrument. This answers well enoughin many cases, but for difficult jobs in whichthe
The Wheel and cycling trade review . nt! The man with the anise-seed bag will take the best roads, and therewont be any twouble with nahsty fences. TIRE AND SPOKE REPAIRING. Trouble is sometimes experienced in re-pairing a leaky inner tube valve. A handyway to do the work is illustrated in Fig. 1,in which A designates a section of the innertube, B the rubber ring and D the pointwhere leaks usually occur. Ordinarily the re-pairer undertakes to place prepared glue orcement beneath the ring with a brush orother instrument. This answers well enoughin many cases, but for difficult jobs in whichthe parts are hard to reach the writer hasfound that a common syringe Is handy to in-ject the glutinous matter to all points. Themanner of using is shown in the view, Cbeing the syringe. Another bother when repairing a leak in atube with a patch is that the application ofthe cement to the patch will cause it towrinkle up and make it difficult to apply thecement evenly. To overcome this, procure asmooth block, such as is marked A in MILK IN THE C0C0ANUT. Sally Skirtless—I dont see why men shouldobject to our wearing bloomers, do you? Dolly Ditto—Pure selfishness. They wantto wear them themselves, thats why. r/G 8 2. Arrange straps BB as shown, and keepthe rubber patch taut by placing it beneaththe straps as indicated. Then apply the ce-ment, allow to stand a few minutes, afterwhich the rubber patch will keep will loosen the tube from the tire ifit is necessary to remove the tube. In Fig. 3 is a drawing of a type of drillfor small bicycle work. It may be builtcheaply on a stand A, with an upright ofwood B, as shown. Attach firmly the armsCC, and to these bolt the bearings for theupright drill shaft D. A regular socket drillor other type may be fixed at E. Put in ashaft with bevelled gear to engage with thegear at E. Put the belt pulleys F at theother end of the shaft as signified. To theunder table should be attached an ordinaryelevating and depressing plate
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